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THE CARS PRISON.
The Great CATCHING Fortress in Which He
Hides in Terror.

The Great Gatchina Fortress in which He
Hides in Terror.
The country house inhabited by the auto.
crat OF all the Russias is nothing more nor
less than a fortress surrounded by moats,
with strong garrison, and situated in the
midst Of an immense camp, in which
countless detachments of soldiers, horse,
foot, artillery and even engineers are quar-
tered. Yet even herethe life of the sovereign
is exposed to various perils, chief among
which is thenotorious disaffection of portions
of his vast army.
Meanwhile, however, Alexander III has
no alternative but to make the best of the
situation. Picked soldiers guard him day
and night at Gatchina, and the strictest disci-
pline prevails in the fortress castle. writer
who short time ago had the rare privilege
of an introduction to the presence of the
Czarina gives agraphic account of his visit
and of the precautions taken to prevent any
mishap. Travelling from st. Petersburg to
CATCHING in company with Gen; lgnatief
and Gen. Baumgarten, one of the Emperor s
aides-de-camp, he noticed all along the route
small detachments of engineers, encampedi in
the open air at short intervals from each
other. Cossacks, mounted on their small
horses, galloped about in every direction.
The party were fetched at the station by one
Of the imperial carriages, which started off at
full speed, and after crossing a bridge,
strongly guarded, arrived at a huge gateway,
at which the writer and his companions had
to show theirpapers. Thence they were con-
Quoted to a wing of the palace, where the
same ceremonial was gone through, after
which they were taken through a perfect
labyrinth of passages and staircases to rooms
reserved for them. The writer was asked il
he would have luncheon or tea, and was then
left to himself until the hour appointed for
his audience. AT noon. Gen. Baumgarten
came tofetch him.
On his way to the central building he saw
the steps crowded with sentries who in turn
presented arms with such din that he
shrewdly suspected that the noise was in
tended to warn their comrades further off OF
the arrival of q stranger. Next a large hall,
in which 100 soldiers of the guard We're on
duty, was traversed. At the further end the
visitor had again TO exhibit his papers, and
after ascending a magnificent staircase and
crossing hall in which a gigantic Moor in
superb costume, and two huge Tcherkesses
armed to the teeth with dirks and pistols
were stationed, he was introduced by man
servant into a small but elegant drawing
room, whence he passed, under the conduct
of one Of the gentlemen ON service, into the
Empress reception-room. After half an
hours conversation, in the course of which
her majesty remarked that there were some
very impious men in Russia, the writer
withdrew London Telegraph.
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endeavoring to gain distinction by hard,
genuine work /? "Who among all the
royal princesses and queens of Europe did
you admire mostw was the question
asked recently of gentleman who has
had unusual opportunities of Judging,
laying sbeen entertained en- .fdnsi0e at
nearly every court in Europe.
1.-THE Queen of Roumanfa," he replied
without hesitation "She is Queen in her
own right. She would be queen any
where, for she is queen among women.
In manner perfectly simple, yet emf
nently graceful and distinguished, it is a
distinction, and makes one prize ones
self more highly even to have spoken
with her" This royal lady's great grief
is that she is childless, and she flies for
consolation to literary work and to teach
ing. She has written some novels that
are faithful studies of homely life, and
she passed public examination in order
to be able to repeat to the girls in the
high school at Bucharest the course of
class lectures she had given privately in
the palace to the daughters of court Off
Gals. These are higher examples of how
extremes meet in these days of work
and equality. But there is one
grave possibility that our girls need
to be guarded against; 1t is that
of becoming mere specialists in
work. Some years ago foreigner,
who had the entree of the best New York
society, remarked that the society of
American women was infinitely more
desirable than that of the men, because
they were so much more broadly eulti-
waited and generally better read. The
men were immersed in business or politics
and have no leisure for cultivation the
women cultivated literatuxe, music and
| the social arts, and were therefore fitted
for the companionship of intelligent men.
This desirable state of things does moi
seem likely to last. The tendency now
among women is to devote themselves to
some trivial specially in literature or art
and make little money at 1t, whether
they need to do SO or not. To follow even
the most trifiing pursuit with money,
making object requires devotion which
becomes absorption and dwarfs all other
possibilities in ones life. Interest and
thought revolve in a circle, petty cares
accumulate, nerves become attenuated
| life is limited to the smallest of indi
vidual interests and all the fruits OF
leisure and happy home life are sacrificed
to little money, which is perhaps
wasted in one direction while gained in
another. Money is cruel god and
women should be delivered from its
idolatry. JENNY JUNE.
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The explorer reports that the climate
there is considerably milder than that of
the west coast. The stone huts of the
chief village are grouped along the shores
of great ford, where grass thriyes in
many sunny places during the brief sum
mer Seven streams which empty into
the ford abound with salmon and the
natives live on fish, white bears and
walrus.
Now and then the winds and waves
watt to them some of the blessings that
other men enjoy. Captain Holm was
surprised to find that their lance shafts
were of wood and that their harpoons
were tipped with iron. He found that
occasionally tree from the far away
rivers of Siberia drifts to them and that
they have learned to use the bits of hoop
iron they have found among the wreck
age that the sea casts on their shores.
G.. G. ADAMS.
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THE LIGHT oFLoYE.


Fair is the flush of the summer dawn,
When the gate of pearl uncloses,
As it glinimers along Che dewy lawn
And shimmers amid the roses;
As it wakes the little drops Of dew
To quiverings of delight,
And threads the aisles of the forest through
On the trail of the flying night.
Soft is the CLEAN of the summer stars
When the feverish day is over,
When the fays are afoat in silvery cars,
And the dusky moth is rover,
When over the couch of the dreaming flowers
The mists of the fountain creep,
And the languid ears of the drowsy hours
Are wooed by song of the deep
But the dazzling hues of the morning fall,
And dull are its golden lances,
And all the light of the stars grows pale
Inmy darling's tender glances;
For the stars may burn with thousand dyes,
And myriad sunbeams fall,
But the light of love in woman's eyes
Is the purest light of all.
-Neao Orleans Times Dem ocrdt.
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putting away up the stream Mr.. Grenfell
suddenly saw before him a large village in
a state of great excitement. Everybody
came rushing out of the huts, and, to the
white mans surprise, the people began
ascending the trees. Then he saw that
huts had been built in the branches of
these trees. They were evidently de-
signed for places of refuge in case of at
tack. The trees were tall, and there
were no branches within thirty feet of
the ground. The huts were reached by
means of native rope ladders. Men,
women and children clambered up the
ladders and tumbled into the fortlets.
Then the ladders were pulled up, and
with their means of returning safely to
terra tirma thus secured it is evident that
they would have enemies who were
armed only with bows and arrows at
considerable disadvantage.
Presently showers of arrows were
launched from the fortlets at the
steamer, which was now abreast of the
town. Mr., Grenfell and his wife were
sitting on the deck, but they were not
alarmed by this Show of hostility, though
the natives in that region are in the habit
of using poisoned arrows, The steamer
was protected on all sides by wire net
ting against the arrows harmlessly
hurled. Mr.. Grenfell vainly tried to
enter into parley with the excited alb
origines, but they merely redoubled their
acts of hostility, and so the exploring
party steamed away.
Mr.. Grenfell is an Englishman and a
Baptist missionary whose discoveries
have made him well known to the geog-
raphers of all nations. He has done far
more than other man to explore the
tributaries of the mighty Congo. Not
even Stanley himself has contributed
more largely to our present maps of the
Congo than this humble missionary. He
has done another remarkable thing. He
has married a native of the country, a
converted girl who was educated in one
of the mission stations ON the west
coast. When Stanley was here awhile
ago he said that Grenfell lived happily
with his colored wife and that they had
1.-TWO beautiful children"
DIR. Wolff has just added a fresh chap
ter to our knowledge of the dwarf tribes
of Africa of whom we have heard very
little since Schweinfurth discovered the
Aka. When Stanley first fioated down
the Congo he heard that great tribe of
dwarfs called the Batwa lived south of
the river. Wissmann also heard of them
later, and now Wolff has been among
them, and remarkable little people he
found them.
They average about four feet three
inches in height. Most thirteen-year-
old boys are as tall as these little folks.
Their villages are near those of the Ba-
kouba and other tribes, who regard them
as very useful little beings. They are
great hunters and makers of palm wine
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The royal family Of American Gypsies is
encamped on the falls of the Ohio about two
miles below Louisville 1t is composed of
twenty persons, who occupy five small white
tents, which are pitched in a beautiful little
valley adjoining the river. with five gaudily
painted wagons drawn around. The womes,
Of the party are six in number but the re-
Gently elected Queen, Matilda Stanley. 4 an
q trip through Texas. The old King 4 Sugar
Stanley He has reigned for twenty-eiebt
years. He has no authority, that being
monopolized by the Queen, who regulates
al the actions Of the tribe. The Stanley
Queen Is always chosen from among them.
although the crown is not inherited. as MANY
suppose. The last Queen was Saline Stanley.
who died year ago in Mississippi, and after
the funeral the present one was nominated
at Dayton, @ The family is very wealthy.
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BY a Grandfather.
-------
ERNEST DE Langley PIERsos.

OFT see you sitting there,
Blue eyes, in that wicker chair,
Twilight on your yellow hair,
Dorothy
Knitting, knitting all the time,
Humming some remembered rhyme,
Till the Dutch clocks merry chime
Called to tea.
All your merry girlish ways
In those unforgotten days
Dimly seen through memory's haze
Rise to view.
Every time pass the mill,
And the school house ON the hill,
Tender thoughts still come at will,
Sweet Of you'll
III.
All. those curling locks of jet
Must be snowy now, and yet,
Ishould know you if we met,
By your eyes.
Hazel brown. and frank. and true,
That could thrill me thro' and thro',
Rudy lips just made to WOO
Such prize!
Nv.
Well, I'm getting old | dare
Say, yet your sweet auburn hair
And black eyes forgotten meier,
Meier will be.
As you knit there all the time
Singing some remembered rhyme
Till the Dutch clocks merry chime
Calls to tea.
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There they lived, the most forsaken OF
human beings, apparently comfortable
and happy. The west coast natives who
were with Holm could understand but
little of the speech of this forgotten
remnant of their race. They looked
upon their lost brethren as savages.
Holm, however, thought them rather
superior in some respects to their west
ern relatives. Tall and rather slender,
with oval and sometimes attractive faces,
they are more interesting objects than
the Western Eskimos, with their squat
figures and stupid, expressionless fea-
lures. Their weapons and household
implements are strikingly like those in
use among the west coast natives 100
years ago, before the whites introduced
iron harpoons and other improved uten-
sils. Pretty embroideries ornament the
edges of their skin garments and they
are neater in their habits than the west
coast aborigines
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THE NATIONAL DRILL.
Indications of Large Representation
at Washington.

AuuichdOns u Large representation
at Washington.
The entries for the May drill at Washing
ton indicate very clearly that there will be
competitors senough, even in the absence
of any companies that may object to the
colored men. Virginia sends an entire
brigade, Kentucky regiment, Ohio regi-
ment and additional companies. Even Da-
kota contributes a battalion and a company,
and Washington Territory furnishes her
Tacoma Guard The West nd South. as
might have been expected, are the most
strongly represented, but Rhode Island
distinguishes herself by sending a very large
force. The most remarkable absence is
that of Pennsylvania, which, out of her
strong militia organization, does not con-
tribute even one company; but perhaps the
unfortunate experience Of the Philadelphia
drill two years ago will account for this. New
York also only sends the Eighth Separate
Company. from her large force of National
Guards, although q zouave organization and
the Peeksville Cadets also hail from til :
State. New Jersey sends one compai 4.
Perhaps the Middle States will be more
abundantly represented in the rife practice,
for which there are many entries.
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Last spring most unique and inter
esting exhibition was opened in Copen-

hagen. Tt was collection illustrating
the handiwork and rude arts of some
new-found men in Greenland, whose ex-
istence was not known until three or
four years ago. On the east coast OF
Greenland in about 66o north latitude is
a desolate stretch of coast, cut by several
glaciers and walled in by eternal packs
of sea ice, This formidable barrier was
not passed by explorers until Captain
Holm and his comrades two years ago
triumphed over the obstacles in the way
and found on the other side about $50
natives living in twovillages. German
explorers had mapped the coast far north
of them, and the Danes had explored
sine fiords south of them, but not until
two years before Holm appeared among
them like an apparition did they know
that any other people lived in all the
world beside themselves. A few adven-
turesome spirits among them had finally
brayed the perils of the ice-bound coast,
and after perhaps centuries of isolation
had put their people into communication
with the outer world.
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A WHITE ROSE.


The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes Of love;
Oh. the red rose is falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.
But send you cream-white rosebud
With flush on its petal tips;
For the love that is purest .and sweetest
Has kiss Of desire on the lips.
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WONDERFUL SURGERY.
The Tendons Of Dog Transferred to n
Human Leg.

Human Leg.
The success Of a wonderful surgical opera
ton, performed in this city nearly a year ago
has just been demonstrated. Seventeen years
ago Edward K Russell met with an acct
dent in which the tendons in one of his legs
were severed, rendering the limb useless The
operation consisted of the transferring of
two tendons from dog. which had been
etherized for the purpose, to Russell's limb,
where they We're united with the severed
tendons in that member.
For ten months after the operation Russell
was not allowed to use his leg, but within
few days he has been permitted to exercise It.
He has now resumed his work, aud has COM
piete control of his limb, the operation hav-
ing proved to be an entire success. Thisis
the first time that this operation has been
performed in this country, though it has
been previously attempted with only partial
uccess.--Nese Bedford Correspondence Cinci,l-
adt ENQUIRER
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Couldn,t work without Tools.

Keeper of Pepitentiary Ito discharged bur
glar) --Well, now you are free again and you
have IS in your pocket. This will take you
to some place where you can get work, and
hope you will be an honest man in the
future.
Eyes, sir; shall try hard not to appear
here again.
well, why don't you go?''
II am waiting for my kit of burglars tools
that were taken from me when came here
Ican't work without tools. '-Neso York Her
cftyu
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81 thought you were engaged to Miss
Beauti, who is so divinely tall and fair, as
you used to say"
81 was; but that was before the real estate
boom began. have married Miss Petite"
THAT little lady scarcely four feet high ~
"Yes; you see, when a mans wife dies a
grave must be bought for her, and with land
at present prices could not afford full.
sized woman. LOS angeles Cal. Mirror.
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THE LABOR ELEMENT.
A Veteran Politician on Its Strength, In-
fuence aud Purposes.

A Veteran Politician ON Its Strength, In-
huence and Purposes.
think the spring elections show that the
labor element is to be faotorin our politics.
1t seems to me that the majority of this ele-
ment comes from the Democratic party. 1t
is impossible to say what will belts influence
in the future. hardly think it will form a
distinct party and permanent organization.
Its members, having come from the two
great parties, will probably divide upon the
tariff, although they might come together on
such other subjects as the silver, the national
banks, &c. There are two elements in the
Labor party, one of which is largely made
up of the manufacturing laborers and the
other agricultural, The latter are for free
trade, the former for protection. They might
unite to such an extent as TO further the gem
eral interests of laboring men, but / do not
think they can form great and powerful
organization which will take the place of
either of the great parties. / do not think
the tendency of this labor element is Com
munistic, and it seems to me that their sus-
tanning Powderly, who is very conserya-
tive man, shows this to be so, --Intsyvie,c NTH
fudge w s. Holman
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lively clatter among the trees along one
bank Of the river. He was sure he heard
human voices overhead, but he could see
nothing except the dark green foliage that
overhung the stream and almost shut
out the sunlight. As he ran his steamer
to the shore the buzz of excitement
among the branches intensified and the
explorer was soon gazing upward at one
of the most remarkable sights in Africa
a little village in mid-air whose denizens
were looking down at him from their
huts amid the branches in great dismay
and establishment. 1t was not known
before that any of the natives Of Africa,
like few Of the inhabitants of Borneo
and New Guinea, live in trees; but DR..
Wolff found several of these tree villages.
At distances of fifteen to twenty feet
from the ground the natives had securely
fastened platforms of interlaced willows
and branches upon which they reared
their matched huts. Up and down the
tree trunks they c1ambered with the agil-
ity of monkeys and swung themselves so
skillfully from branch to branch that it
seemed as though, like the orang-outang,
they could travel through the forest
without touching the ground. Partly to
guard against surprises from their enc
mics and partly to escape the foundations
of the river. their ancestors, some time or
other, took refuge in the trees, and in the
course of time they became veritable tree
dwellers. Their huts are not built so
high from the ground as those visited by
Mr.. Gill in New Guinea which, he says,
were near the tops of tall trees and,
though well built, he did not feel safe In
them because they rocked so much in the
wind
This is notable instance of the strange
and wholly unexpected discoveries that
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We kAOW all Oiu ldht captain WHO IL an
inveterate reader of the serial papers. He
becomes deenly interested in story, and the
day when each fresh installment reaches him
is one of joy, At one time he was wrapped
up in q lurid tale entitled THE Doge of
Venice" The last section of the story came,
he finished it, and in the excitement of the
climax threw the paper down and exclaimed .
well, that dog is the dash dashdest dog
ever read about. Dashed if he didn't talk
and act just like man. "--BsGalo Express.
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In spring young mans fancy lightly turns
| TO thoughts of new clothes. Many are shut
out where tailors do not trust. Acso Orleans
Ricayune. -
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How the Goulds Work the Market.
Jay Gould--Want yacht, eh2 Well
you We got to make the money TO buy 1t. I'll
take walk down the street
Son George-Yes, father.
'rll slip ON the pavement
Eyes, father a~,-l-s-sas
'..And have myself brought back in an am
bulance"
Eyes, father"
Then stocks will drop, and you buy"
Eyes, fathern
Then I'll go out on the front pavement
and dance jig.n
Eyes, father"
Then stocks win go up, and you sell. p
- Washington Critic.
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Now have grown to mans estate,
Behold the irony of fatel
No maiden tries to dislocate
That Roman nose again;
And strangely shy is every miss.
Though I'd appreciate the bliss
And value every hearty kiss
They wasted on me.
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NEW FOUND MEN.
QUEER PEOPLE RECENTLY DIS.
COVERED By EXPLORERS.

African Villages in the Trees Whose In
habitants Climb Like Monkeys Tribes
Of Dwarfs In the Congo Region-The
Native Arts Of Indigenous Greenlanders.
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When street cars are run by electricity
Tor they invariably prove good conductors.
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MISS LOOKABOUT.
AN oBsERvANT woMAN's NOTES
ABOUT TOWN IN NEW YORK.

The Diversions Of Shopping Some of the
Latest Attractions to Customers Ohered
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5 o IN e I l mes
requite the
explorer for
all the tolls
and dangers
of his jour
ney. These
tree jewellers
live south OF
the Congo,
The year be-
fore Mission.
airy Grenfell,
whileascend-
ing the Mo-
bangi, the
gre a t Q 81
n orth Q r n
tributary OF
the Congo,
made adicov.
cry tina. was
equally
esting. AS his
little steamer
DooN m &.tae
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Icopnrighted. 1871

One day early
last year DR..
Louis w off was
steaming along
the Lom a m
river, some 500
miles from the
point where he
had turned the
PROV of the lit
tie En- Avant
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1AAs
You have not changed since
those days, Louise,
When | purchased your
kisses with lollipops,
Though you plunged in the
hdut monde's Preacher
GUS seas
OF kettle-drums, germans
and Thursday hops.
You will marry, ! hear, II
reports are true,
A titled loon, who is bent
and old;
Yet matters are equal be
tween you,
For I'm sure that my
lord will be soldl
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The Mathematician favorite season is the
summer. The milkman's Is the spring.